Bilibili Gaming have beaten Dplus KIA 3–0 in the Worlds 2026 quarterfinals, taking a semifinal place and ending Dplus’s tournament. Riot’s official knockout bracket confirms the sweep and places BLG against the winner of Karmine Corp–T1.
It reverses the impression left by the Swiss stage: Dplus reached the knockouts at 3–0, while BLG qualified at 3–2. Those records earned each team a place in the last eight; neither carried a game advantage into their best-of-five quarterfinal.
BLG survive Swiss, then sweep
BLG opened Swiss with a loss to Movistar KOI, recovered with wins over Team Liquid Alienware and Karmine Corp, then lost 1–2 to Top Esports in their first qualification series.
They secured the last-eight place by beating Hanwha Life Esports 2–0 in round five. Against Dplus, they needed only three games to complete the quarterfinal.
Dplus’s Swiss route had been shorter: wins over G2 Esports and T1, followed by a 2–0 qualifying series against Movistar KOI. The knockout sweep ends that unbeaten series run.
One semifinal opponent still to be decided
The other quarterfinal on BLG’s side of the bracket is Karmine Corp against T1. On the opposite side, Invictus Gaming and Gen.G have already secured their semifinal meeting.
Riot’s primer dates the semifinals to November 7–8 in Allen, Texas, with each day’s series starting at 16:00 CST / 22:00 UTC / 23:00 CET in Stockholm. The final moves to Brooklyn on November 14, starting at 14:00 EST / 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET.
All remaining rounds are best-of-five. The knockout overview keeps the bracket together; our Gen.G–LYON report covers how the other confirmed semifinal pairing was formed.